What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
A lot of guys come up talking about The Waterboy. I get a lot of that. Misery, Delores Claiborne and The Waterboy,… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
“I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.” — Spectator no. 7 Copy Share Image
“Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin"… — Aaron Watson Copy Share Image
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
